DR. JOHN HAWKESWORTH, 1720-1773, BY J.L. Abbott
FAIN: RP-*1718-80
University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Thompson Webb (Project Director: May 1980 to October 1990)
To support publication of "Dr. John Hawkesworth, 1720-1773: Eighteenth-Century Man of Letters," a literary biography of Samuel Johnson's friend, literary editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, author of Captain Cook's "Voyages," and associate of David Garrick, Ben Franklin and Dr. Charles Burney.